013 – Rollins Power Sauce


Henry Rollins essentially saved my life. 10 years ago or so, my girlfriend at the time dumped me and I was pretty sure there was no point to anything anymore. My friends all did their best to make sure I stayed busy and helped keep my mind off the situation, but I had to be alone at some point. One such friend gave me a bunch of Rollin’s spoken work tapes, and another friend gave me some Black Flag records. For about two months, I’d say that’s pretty much all I listened to, and it helped me get through the rough patches and eventually move on. It also made me a huge Rollins fan.

Henry turns 50 today. Happy Birthday, Rollins.

Ok, PANIC!: Romance Comics


I put together this parody comic cover-recreation for the “Romance Comics” topic. With great apologies to Don Heck. Less so to Vince Colleta. The big swinger may or may not reflect my own personal opinions of fashion. Original cover below.

You can even check out the lead story at this blog!

012 – Here there be Dragons


Part of the whole daily thing is that I want to try to do different things with the sketches/art. Whether I fail or not is inconsequential.

By the way, I chalk this up as a failure.

Anyhow, Savage Dragon. When Image Comics first started, Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon quickly became my favorite out of the bunch. I had loved Larsen’s work on Spider-Man, and was eager to see his own creation. Not to bash the other Image founders, but you could tell that Larsen loved what he did, and loved Dragon far more than the other guys did for their own. I think the simple fact that, almost 20 years later, he’s still doing his own book, let alone one of the only ones even still actively making comics at all, speaks for that.

I stopped reading Savage Dragon about six, seven years ago. Something changed – either in myself or in Larsen’s creative approach – and found I simply wasn’t enjoying the book anymore. Despite that, I don’t think I can put into words just how much respect I hold for Erik Larsen as a creator and an artist, and how much of an influence he is on me. Obviously his influence is limited, otherwise I’d have motivated myself to produce actual work over the past decade.

But that’s my problem, not his.

011 – Masked Man


Post-it note sketch done in ball-point pen. I think it’s supposed to be Mister Miracle. Maybe. It wasn’t my initial intention. Maybe.

010 – Prince Namor on the tube


Tried to do something loose with pen and marker, added the color in Photoshop.

As a bonus, I’ve added another Namor drawing I did a few years back.

I drew this one drawing night to make my friend laugh, and it led to a short-lived series of sketches of “Superheroes if they looked more like real people”. Obviously, not in the static, lifeless, stoic Alex Ross kinda way.

009 – Eradicator


This drawing was inspired by Dennis Culver. On his blog, he’s been redesigning DC characters to fit into the whole “Batman, Inc.” thing. They are fantastic designs and ideas (seriously, DC Comics, you need to wake up and do a Wally West as Batman of Keystone series. NOW.). Anyhow, I just wanted to play in the sandbox for a minute, so I came up with E-Bat-icator you see above (Eradicator as Batman of Metropolis, I suppose).

The thing about Dennis Culver, though, is that up until a week ago, I’d never heard of him, and had never seen his work. He design for “Captain Batarang” was picked up by Project: Rooftop, which is where I first stumbled onto his blog. After being amazed by his art and designs, I noticed that he was posting a daily sketch/drawing. I’ve seen tons of other artists do it before, but for some reason, looking at Culver’s site, it really clicked for me, and I decided to do this daily thing as well.

So yeah, go look at his work, he’s great.

Cornered: Thor #168

I submitted this to the Cornered blog. It’s pretty lame.

008 – Ant-Man


Just a doodle I made during work on a Post-It when my computer was tied up with work stuff. Find. Replace. Wait. Repeat.

I have no idea what a flying ant is supposed to look like.

007 – Question & Answer


So, Mike Norton is this crazy talented artist whose work deserves a higher profile. He’s worked steadily for years, and seems to be quite popular, but he’s far from an A-Lister. I admire his ability to change his style to work for whatever project he’s doing. He currently has the gig for the Young Justice comic, based on the Cartoon Network show (which are awesome, by the way – comic and show). Mike’s 24-Hour Comic contributions for the past couple years have been stellar (The Curse I & II), featuring a frentic, loose-but-detailed style that seems inherent with a 24-Hour comic, and a disturbed sense of humor that is right up my alley. Mike also co-hosts the Crankcast, a podcast that greatly influenced my decision to start my own in the first place, and the style we would adopt.

But for all that, what I am most excited to see is Mike’s creator-owned book that he’s talked about for years on the Crankcast, and over the past year has made some headway into getting it done. The pages Mike has posted of The Answer combine all the best elements of his previous works and really lets his talents and skill shine. I don’t know a thing about the story of The Answer, but the art alone should make Mike a comic-art Superstar.

I should mention, at this point, that I am not in any way shape or form affiliated with a Mike Norton. Just a fan.

Anyhoo, I wanted to draw The Answer. I love the simple, but brilliant design and look of the character. It’s like a combo of Madman and Grendel. I threw in DC Comics’ The Question because c’mon! I also like The Question.

Okay, I’m done.

006 – Feetsball


It’s the Super Bowl. I don’t like football. The end.